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The evidence seems to indicate that being rich and powerful is a curse. May it never happen to me.
Meanwhile, in pigeon news: An episode of a show touched on French Mondain pigeons. And good heavens!
"The Mondain is an ancient French pigeon breed. It was kept at many farms and also by poultry fanciers. The breed was described in documents, found in 1824. A distinction was made between three types of Mondain:
The large Mondain that, according to Buffon, sometimes reached the weight of a small chicken. This type of Mondain was very large, very heavy and had red eye ceres. The feather colour varied, in fact they occurred in all know pigeon colours. The number of offspring was low, also they often trampled the eggs or crushed them with their heavy body during incubation."
"The size of a small chicken... Surely not" I just had time to think to myself before scrolling down to THIS CHONKER.
Photo and quote from https://www.pigeontype.info/2017/04/28/french-mondain-pigeons-gros-mondain/
"The Zersetzung is working. He is taking himself apart, piece by piece, and replacing the parts with synthetic fillers because the world has told him his own parts are defective."
"The Colonization of Confidence" by Robert Kingett (
@WeirdWriterRobert Kingett) is one of the best pieces of writing about "AI" I have ever seen. Read it over lunch and it literally made me cry in the restaurant.
https://sightlessscribbles.com/the-colonization-of-confidence/
세상에서 가장 효과적인 영업은 두가지 있다고 봄 내가 좋아하는 그것을 세상에 숨기지 않고 한껏 즐겁게 즐기며 행복한 비명을 지르는 것이 첫째요, 그러나 그 비명을 나 혼자만 쓰고 나 혼자만 보는 곳에 올려선 1도 소용없나니 영업할 자여 세상을 향해 행복에 겨워하라 그리하면 뭇 질투심 많은 잼컨 수집자가 스스로 낚여들어오리라(?? 마무리왜이렇게됏지 저 사이비아닙니다
i've heard it's twosday?
$ curl parrot.live
You're welcome ;)
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115952183460649167
Hope to see "you" soon!
okay now im actually done
Today I will mostly be spilling coffee. Twice so far and it's only 11am. Have a photo of spark out Sparky, who has spilt no coffee whatsoever this morning.
hello world
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115952183460649167
Hope to see "you" soon!
Winter, but not far from spring
Spring is a bit further away for me 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli
That is the frozen Hudson under that ice. Stay warm and I will see you in Ottawa for @bsdcan where it will be much warmer for everyone. #bsdcan
"Herb spirals are beautiful, productive, righteous installations -- popular in permaculture"
https://modernfarmer.com/2020/11/herb-spirals/
#SolarPunkSunday #HerbGardens #Herbs #Gardening #SpiralHerbGardens #GardenDesign #PermaCulture
did you know? if you're a paying adobe user, you can message the support and ask for offline installers for the software you pay for
why would you do that? if they ever were to discontinue one of their products (*cough* animate), you could still install and activate it
and while i do not publicly endorse piracy (for obvious reasons), i do want to note that installations made with these offline installers have way safer methods of patching them than downloading a pirated copy that's potentially malicious
all i'm saying is, those installers are kind of annoying to get these days. if you pay for the software, ask for the installers and make backups of them.
oh and last - you can ask for older versions too! even older than what the CC app shows you
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116002605778465161
On n'utilise pas les #logicielslibres parce qu'ils sont meilleurs (en général, c'est pas le cas)
On n'utilise pas les logiciels libres parce qu'ils sont plus libres (c'est le cas parfois seulement)
On n'utilise pas les logiciels libres parce qu'ils ont une meilleure politique (c'est pas toujours le cas)
On utilise les logiciels libres parce que c'est LA SEULE OPTION. Sur le long terme, un logiciel non libre n'existe pas.
(Copie d'une lettre de #Adobe à un utilisateur qui dit que Animate va disparaître et que tous ses docs personnels vont disparaître également et qu'il faut qu'il se débrouille pour les sauvegarder comme il peut avant qu'il soit trop tard)
I have a stack of spare laptops at home. These would be good for testing small cluster. My home network is pretty unstable (30mins downtime total in a day, hard reset on every night, no LAN cable in wall) but new home is pretty done, so I'm going to make a homelab there before I actually move on.
Meanwhile, in pigeon news: An episode of a show touched on French Mondain pigeons. And good heavens!
"The Mondain is an ancient French pigeon breed. It was kept at many farms and also by poultry fanciers. The breed was described in documents, found in 1824. A distinction was made between three types of Mondain:
The large Mondain that, according to Buffon, sometimes reached the weight of a small chicken. This type of Mondain was very large, very heavy and had red eye ceres. The feather colour varied, in fact they occurred in all know pigeon colours. The number of offspring was low, also they often trampled the eggs or crushed them with their heavy body during incubation."
파리 검찰, 아동 포르노 및 딥페이크 유포 등으로 X 사무실 수색
수정2026.02.03. 오후 8:14 www.newsis.com/view/NISX202...
파리 검찰, 아동 포르노 및 딥페이크 유포 등으로 X ...
Data Brokers Can Fuel Violence Against Public Servants
Link: https://www.wired.com/story/how-data-brokers-can-fuel-violence-against-public-servants/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872190
France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Link: https://apnews.com/article/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-9f5388b68a0648514cebc8d92f682060
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873294
computer chip small, hard to make
we mess up times, sometimes bad
TJ DeVries on explaining concept of yield for HBM
https://youtu.be/kD7CRXRbcrw
Really nice talk with ALL the detail about how to reverse-engineer the actual circuit layout of a classic 1990s synthesiser:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM_q5T7wTpQ #39c3 #DSP #reverseengineering
We just released Mastodon 4.5.6, 4.4.13, and 4.3.19.
These versions contain various bug fixes, including a fix for a moderate security vulnerability.
Full release notes and update instructions are available on the GitHub releases page.
We are ready to roll! Today, we're at the very first #DigitalAutonomy Fair at the 
@universityofgroningen!
Come by our booth, learn all about #PeerTube, #Mastodon, and about the 
@SURF instance https://social.edu.nl.
Create an account, get a sticker and please form a queue to cuddle our #plushtodon.
$ curl parrot.live
You're welcome ;)
Max & Molly relaxing on the balcony
Max, the black cat, just about tolerates Molly. But he's never affectionate with her, likes personal space, gets annoyed if she comes too close
Molly, on the other hand, adores Max. She thinks the sun shines out of his butt. Which is why she's always looking for it up there
This picture shows a rare occasion when he let her sit next to him. You can see in her eyes she knows it won't be long before he gets up and leaves in a huff
While I am on "gardening leave", I am finally taking the opportunity to try and get off Evernote. I've been an Evernote user since 2009, and I use it every day for work and life, so this is a big move. I really want to stick with the folders and stacks layout that Evernote has (hey, I like structure) and so far Joplin seems like a good option. It's open source and they also seem very active on the fediverse (
@joplinappJoplin). Anyone have advice, or tips for other apps? https://joplinapp.org/
Wild how far you can push "customizable select" with just #CSS
The legendary and very long-running "modular explicits" #OCaml PR was finally merged today https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/13275
Exciting times ahead!
"Today the Cato Inst published our report providing the 1st look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows⚡#IMMIGRANTS CREATED SURPLUSES every year, by a combined $14.5T, even as deficits grew."
-D Bier
Trump is🚨tanking the #economy & #NationalSecurtiy bc of his #tariffs, #lawlessness, IMM crackdown that's moved fed$/resources to #ICE arrests, #detention, #deportations... *adversely affects the economy.
#DHS #USPol
https://www.cato.org/blog/cato-study-immigrants-reduced-deficits-145-trillion-1994
Falls ihr #Duckduckgo nutzt, überlegt, ob ihr zu noai.duckduckgo wechselt. Die Umstellung ist ein Handgriff und es ist ein Signal an den Entwickler, dass er in #KI-Shit nicht investieren muss.
"Today the Cato Inst published our report providing the 1st look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows⚡#IMMIGRANTS CREATED SURPLUSES every year, by a combined $14.5T, even as deficits grew."
-D Bier
Trump is🚨tanking the #economy & #NationalSecurtiy bc of his #tariffs, #lawlessness, IMM crackdown that's moved fed$/resources to #ICE arrests, #detention, #deportations... *adversely affects the economy.
#DHS #USPol
https://www.cato.org/blog/cato-study-immigrants-reduced-deficits-145-trillion-1994
이번 금/은 하락했을때 쫄리긴했음 내가 같은 실수를 반복했나 ㅠㅠ 싶긴했는데 어제는 사야하는 날인데 확실히 손이 안나가긴함;; 누가 그러더라고 마음 가는대로 하면 투자 (투기?)에 성공하기 어렵다고 ㅎㅎ 어제가 정말 그랬는데 그래도 소액 좀 넣긴했음; 은은 아직 그런데 금은 다들 눈치보면서 열심히 사는듯 4시간 봉 차트입니다. 바닥에서 슬금슬금 올라오죠...
（2026-02）【特集】「電気代、払うのやめてみました」ポタ電と太陽光だけで1カ月仕事してみた狂気の結果 - PC Watch
https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/topic/feature/2082893.html
The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.6
#illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeUpdates #illumosCafeAnnouncements
The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v.4.5.6
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeInstance
We have long maintained a tool that aids in exhaustively testing state in vanilla SwiftUI applications, but not many know about it. It's called 'expectDifference', and it allows you to capture a piece of state before and after a sequence of user actions takes place, and then it is your job to mutate the before value to equal the after:
@Test func addPlayer() async throws {
await expectDifference(model.rows) {
model.addPlayerButtonTapped()
model.newPlayerName = "Blob Esq"
model.saveNewPlayerButtonTapped()
try await model.$rows.load()
} changes: { rows in
rows.append(
GameModel.Row(
player: Player(
id: UUID(0),
gameID: UUID(-1),
name: "Blob Esq",
score: 0
)
)
)
}
}
This comes with a lot of benefits:
• Possible to assert on the minimal changes that occurred instead of repeating lots of unchanged data.
• Asserts on more of what actually happens in your logic.
• Less likely to take short cuts in asserting because it's so easy to write assertions.
• Great test failure messages!
We employ this technique to great success in this week's episode where we show how to write very strong tests against an app that uses SQLiteData for its persistence:
https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep353-tour-of-sqlitedata-advanced-testing
If you need to study some functions but have limited tools you can go a long way assuming everything is linear except at minima/maxima where you assume everything is quadratic.
Use this approach in physics and everything looks like a free field or a perturbation thereof.
Use this in statistics and ML and everything looks like a Gaussian distribution.
So when you see what seems like a deep connection between these domains I wonder if what you're seeing is just the shape of your tools.
The #BSDCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v.4.5.6
#BSDCafeUpdates #BSDCafeServices #BSDCafeAnnouncements #BSDCafeInstance
Is it just me or bsd.cafe is way faster? cc @stefanoStefano Marinelli
I’ve almost finished the migration from Evernote, and I have to say I’m very impressed with Joplin so far. I got a couple of recommendations for Obsidian, which by all accounts is also an excellent open source option. But Joplin better suits my needs and is a close match structurally with Evernote. If anyone is interested, I can toot the process I went through to migrate (it’s more manual these days, as Evernote no longer allows export-all). Just reply if you’d like that. https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/116001395203949261
The #illumosCafe #Mastodon instance has been upgraded to v4.5.6
#illumosCafeServices #illumosCafeUpdates #illumosCafeAnnouncements
_Someone_ kept us awake half the night #catsOfMastodpn
Tailscale is growing. The hard part isn’t adding features.
It’s growing without losing the simplicity people love.
That’s why we’re excited to welcome Ross Kukulinski as VP of Product.
More on how we’re thinking about staying secure and simple 👇
https://tailscale.com/blog/welcome-ross-kukulinski/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=owned-social&utm_campaign=ross-welcome
Stefan Bohacek
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Glyph
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
phildini
mcc
Maho 🦝🍻
Felipe Mateus
Olivier Forget
Richard "RichiH" Hartmann
Paul Cantrell
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